2024 Legal Spotlight: Endangered Species Act
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Legal issues. Not a magical phrase unless you are charging by the hour, but nonetheless something that we face in agriculture. When it comes to an industry-wide glance, the National Agricultural Law Center, based in Arkansas, called 2023 a year for significant developments and changes on the legal front.
Harrison Pittman, director of the Ag Law Center, says there are a lot of issues they’ll be keeping a close eye on in 2024 narrowing it down to the top four: Endangered Species, Waters of the U.S., California’s Proposition 12, and foreign land ownership.
Today and the next three, we’ll dive into his perspectives…
“I think the Endangered Species Act and particularly its relationship to pesticide registration and re-registration and how that looks going forward, I think that's one that we're going to spend a tremendous amount of time on in 2024. It was a big deal in 2023, but that is a major shift in that part of the ag industry, and it gets one that's going to continue in a big way in 2024. I would keep a close eye on the litigation side concerning pesticides. There are still quite a few cases going on. They're not all being decided at the same point. But there have been a few over the last couple of years - at least one recently - where the verdict has been very financially significant at least before appeals take place.”
We.ll keep talking about these issues this week in your Southeast Regional Ag News
